Ukraine drone strikes hit Russian servers, bot traffic drop likely unrelated to disinformation

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Ukrainian drone strikes recently targeted and disabled Russian data centers. This caused a measurable drop in online bot traffic from Russia, according to data from Cloudflare. The affected servers belonged to Yandex, a major Russian technology company. However, experts suggest this drop likely did not significantly impact the coordinated disinformation campaigns often attributed to Russian state actors.

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